TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ramon Tena Pera
The main aim was to train participants on becoming multipliers on human rights in the field of media, by using non-formal education tools and methods.
The objectives were to:
- Developing training and facilitation skills for 20 multipliers
- Introducing the No Hate Speech Campaign, familiarizing participants with tools they can use for local projects
- Exchange work experience on human rights education and reporting
- Prepare participants for organizing and delivering a local event in the framework of the No Hate Speech Campaign
- Create guidelines for young media makers – multipliers, for media approach to human rights in reporting
Mainly, the activity addressed the need for participants to know about human rights practice, and to develop competences to know how to report on Human Rights in an informed and sensitive way.
This activity fit into the goals of the organisation in the fact that it helped strengthening their network of young media makers interested in human rights reporting. In addition, it helped in involving participants in developing projects in their own communities.
The target group was young media makers, especially journalists, but also bloggers, social network specialists... The activity aimed at participants who had some previous activity on human rights training and could further develop their own projects.
The team working on this activity was made of 7 trainers from Andorra, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Germany, Romania and Ukraine.
Participants came from Armenia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, UK and Ukraine.
The main methodologies used came from non-formal learning. There were some presentations (for example on the No Hate Speech Movement or on Media Reporting Best Practices), but they were less than 20% of the overall activity.
The training consisted mainly on activities that helped participants reflect on issues of Human Rights, Human Rights Education, Media Reporting or Facilitation Skills.
For example, participants developed through group work guidelines on human rights reporting, and devoted one of the days to work with Council fo Europe's manuals COMPASS and Bookmarks.
I believe that the activity achieved greatly its main objectives. Some of the main outcomes of this activity included:
- Participants and the organisation got engaged in the No Hate Speech Movement.
- Guidelines for young media makers on how to approach human rights were drafted and will soon published;
- Participants started to plan local actions to develop in the framework of the NHSM. In this moment the team of trainers is still working with participants in the mentoring phase and projects will start to develop by the end of March 2016.
Participants and EYP members are reacting in the social networks to recent events (refugee crisis, attacks in Paris…) and linking them with the NHSM, posting counter-narratives, using the logos and materials of the campaign… Therefore I really think that they got a good understanding of the whole phenomena of hate-speech, its on-line manifestations and the objectives and working methods of the NHSM.
Some materials can be downloaded from: http://www.youthpress.org/news/eyp-educates-young-media-makers-on-human-rights-reporting
For this activity I was the external educational adviser.
My role was to provide pedagogical support and advice on the design of the program and on the development of the activity, making sure that it respected the Youth Department's quality criteria for non-formal education activities.
In addition to this I acted as contact person between European Youth Press and the Council of Europe Youth Department (YD). For example, I presented the Youth Department and its main activities and I helped in the institutional communication between both organisations. In this sense, I also helped with logistics and financial issues.
Finally, I'm acting as mentor for a couple of projects (in Belgium and Costa Rica) that participants in the activities are developing in their local communities.